Views: 0The Gilman City R-4 Board of Education has approved the school calendar for 2021-2022. Board of Education Treasurer Tori Wideman reports the school year is scheduled to start August 25th, 2021, and end May 13th, 2022. The board approved the Instructional Effectiveness Evaluation, which involves the alignment of district assessments with Missouri learning standards […]
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Grundy County Nursing Home District Board of Directors presented information on a variety of topics at latest meeting
Views: 0The Grundy County Nursing Home District Board of Directors heard about various topics at its meeting on December 15th. It was announced the United States Department of Agriculture approved the energy project. Administrator Jerry Doerhoff explained the project involves replacing the boiler and putting in mini-split units in each resident room. Each of those […]
Kirksville police report an attempted robbery on Friday night
Views: 0The Kirksville Police Department is seeking information about an attempted robbery on Friday night, December 11th. Police report a man entered the Smoker Friendly shop at 511 South Baltimore, displayed what appeared to be a black semiautomatic pistol, and demanded money from the clerk. The clerk locked herself in an interior room of the […]
Director of Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services attends White House task force meeting on Operation Warp Speed
Views: 0 President Donald Trump and the White House Coronavirus Task Force invited a small group of private business, state, and health care leaders to the White House to brief them on Operation Warp Speed, the COVID-19 vaccine production and distribution project started earlier this year. Dr. Randall Williams, director of the Missouri Department of […]
Putnam County R-1 School District recognizes Cooper Stanley as Career and Technical Education Student of the Month
Views: 0The Putnam County R-1 School District recognized Cooper Stanley as the Career and Technical Education Student of the Month for December 2020. Student winners are chosen by the vocational faculty based on a set of criteria that includes: attendance, grades, cooperation with fellow students and teachers, enthusiasm for subject(s), attitude both in the classroom […]
Grundy County Nursing Home District Board of Directors to meet on December 15th
Views: 0The Grundy County Nursing Home District Board of Directors will discuss energy improvement projects and financing next week. The board will meet in the conference room of the Sunnyview Nursing Home of Trenton on the afternoon of December 15th at 4 o’clock. The meeting will not be open to the public due to the […]
Governor Parson announces meeting of Missouri’s Electoral College members
Views: 0Governor Mike Parson announced that Missouri’s Electoral College members will meet on Monday, December 14 at 2 p.m. at the State Capitol to cast their votes for President and Vice President of the United States. The meeting and subsequent vote of the electors provide the official assignment of Missouri’s 10 electoral votes to the […]
GoFundMe account, to benefit the Grundy County Rural Fire Department, started by grateful Trenton family
Views: 0A Trenton couple has established a “GoFundMe” page to raise donations to benefit the Grundy County Rural Fire Department. Jeannie and Doug Little organized the fund drive to show what they called “gratitude” for the fire-fighters’ response to their house fire one week ago on December 1st, just outside the Trenton city limits. “Without […]
Pleasant View Board of Education to meet on Tuesday evening
Views: 0The Pleasant View R-6 School library will be the location for a Board of Education meeting Tuesday evening, December 8, 2020. The agenda for a 6 o’clock meeting includes public comments from Tiffany Haffner, discussion regarding third through fifth-grade classrooms; the 2019-20 financial audit; a Title 9 policy; and renewal of insurance. There also […]
North Central Missouri College Foundation announces Allied Health Scholarship Awards
Views: 0“Through the generosity of others in the form of endowed funds or the giving of a gift each year, the NCMC Foundation is honored to announce that over $56,000 was recently awarded to NCMC Nursing and Health Sciences students,” commented NCMC Director of Development Alicia Endicott. “53 awards were recently made during the fall […]
Missouri State Highway Patrol reports the arrest of five area residents
Views: 2The Missouri State Highway Patrol reports a Kansas City resident was arrested Saturday night in Daviess County and accused of felony counts of possessing marijuana and psilocybin mushrooms, felony unlawful possession of a firearm, misdemeanor possession of drug paraphernalia, speeding, and expired vehicle registration. Nineteen-year-old Blayne Pace was taken to the Daviess-DeKalb Regional Jail. […]
Trenton R-9 School District modifies COVID-19 quarantine protocol
Views: 0The Trenton R-9 School District has had a large number of students quarantined in the last few weeks due to close contact with a positive COVID-19 student within a classroom. That is according to Superintendent Mike Stegman, who notes administration has worked to keep students safe by wearing masks and social distancing. He reports […]
Audio: Cobblestone Inn and Suites in north Trenton to hold open house today
Views: 0Cobblestone Inn and Suites in Trenton will hold an open house on December 3rd. Cookies and punch as well as tours will be provided from 11 to 1 o’clock. The Trenton Area Chamber of Commerce will hold a ribbon-cutting at 11:45. Micah Landes is a co-owner of Cobblestone Inn and Suites in Trenton. Josie […]
Audio: Independent 53-page report on Missouri Veterans Homes shows failure of leadership, response and planning
Views: 0An independent investigation into the COVID-19 deaths at Missouri veterans homes has found that the Missouri Veterans Commission headquarters failed to recognize the outbreak. Armstrong Teasdale’s report says MVC should have recognized the presence of an outbreak in the Cape Girardeau veteran’s home by September 2. MVC Chairman Tim Noonan says a tremendous amount […]
Firefighters called to the residence of Doug and Jeannie Little west of Trenton
Views: 1Fire Tuesday night damaged a rural Trenton home with two of the occupants receiving burns. Chief of the Grundy County Rural Fire Department, Kenny Roberts, said the call was to the residence of Doug and Jeannie Little just west of Trenton. He noted the fire damage was pretty much confined to a girls’ bedroom […]
Kaitlyn Rouse selected as the Career and Technical Education Student of the Month
Views: 2The Putnam County R-1 School District recently recognized Kaitlyn Rouse as the Career and Technical Education Student of the Month for November 2020. Student winners are chosen by the vocational faculty based on a set of criteria that includes: attendance, grades, cooperation with fellow students and teachers, enthusiasm for subject(s), attitude both in the […]
Kelly Claycomb selected as North Central Missouri College’s Outstanding Employee
Views: 0Kelly Claycomb, Nursing Director of PN to ADN program, from Ridgeway, MO, has been selected as North Central Missouri College’s Outstanding Employee for November. Kelly has been employed at NCMC for thirteen years and holds a Master’s in Nursing Education. Kelly recently worked tirelessly on NCMC’s PN to ADN nursing program review for CNEA […]
34-year-old man pleads guilty to conspiracy to provide material support to ISIS
Views: 0Thirty-four-year-old Kristopher Sean Matthews (aka Ali Jibreel) admitted to conspiring to provide material support to the designated foreign terrorist organization Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham/Syria (aka ISIS), announced Assistant Attorney General for National Security John C. Demers, U.S. Attorney Gregg N. Sofer for the Western District of Texas, and FBI Special Agent in […]
North Central Missouri College Board of Trustees approves the hiring of several new personnel
Views: 1The North Central Missouri College Board of Trustees approved multiple personnel items at a meeting on November 24th. One was the retirement of English Instructor and Department Chairperson Linda Cowling effective at the end of the summer intercession in 2021. Fourteen of Cowling’s 28 years in education have been at NCMC. The board approved emeritus […]
Grundy R-5 to close buildings due to spike in COVID-19 cases; instruction to continue by virtual format
Views: 0The Grundy County R-5 School District buildings will be closed to students on November 23rd and 24th due to the recent spike in county COVID-19 cases, the potential loss of staff, quarantined students, and close contact conditions. Superintendent Phillip Fox says instruction will continue those days using a virtual format. The situation will be […]